Bumped: The Joy of Sets. Returning: Mike and Molly

Nine has moved The Joy of Sets with Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee to 10:30pm next Tuesday night.

It will be replace by a new episode of Mike and Molly.

This week The Joy of Sets pulled a disappointing 488,000 viewers, following its Two And A Half Men lead in of 1.03m viewers. On those figures the network had to act.

But while Nine wanted to give the show every chance with a big lead-in, was it the right fit with the Ashton Kutcher comedy?

After seeing the show I always thought it was the kind of show that would work best in a 10:30pm timeslot anyway, so at least it’s found its way there now. But the show about television is also too scripted, and would benefit from Martin and Kavalee bantering more freely.

Given the Zapruder’s Other Films show has filmed in advance, that may not be achievable this series. I’d like to see it have a second season where it can run amok a little bit more in a timeslot without so much pressure.

The show is too scripted or something. Kavalee wasn’t good on TV Burp but he was great on World Cup Fever. It feels like Tony and Ed are trying to conform to someone else’s wishes as opposed to having their own show where they control all of the content. It feels rushed. It is not Get This tv. If you crossed the Joy of Sets, Hamster Wheel and the Bazura Project then you would have a good show. I loved Get This but I am tuning into this show because of loyalty – it needs a radical change.

Americana repeats are not going to last forever Nine and it’s time they starting doing a complete overhaul of most of the evening lineup.What about making some decent Australian Home Grown Family Sitcoms like they use to have in the nineties but make them relevant for the people of today most of which who were only babies or not even born/conceived at that time.

@Beckala – “…lame sex joke isn’t exactly what you get from Tony Martin!”
O rly? How would you classify him going on and on about “Mästerkock” and all the variations of something-kock and kock-something? Those few excruciating minutes were when I decided to stop watching.

Those bagging Joy of Sets – we will have to agree to disagree. I think it’s hilarious, it has been one of my favourite shows this year. Pairing it with Two and a half men may have been to it’s detriment because it is certainly not the same type of audience – hehehe lame sex joke isn’t exactly what you get from Tony Martin! But I’m still disappointed with a later timeslot – I think the boys deserved better, and I’ll have to record now – I much prefer watching something live.

Plus – weren’t the ratings for Mike and Molly not that great? It is a mediocre show at best – I cannot understand how she won for best actress unless it is the result of a split vote between Tina Fey and Amy Poeler, or people were voting because of Gilmore Girl love. She is fine in the role, but I wouldn’t call her performance anything more than adequate.

And once the viewers inevitably don’t tune in, what, more BBT? Nine needs a major overhaul in thinking – either commit to the intellectual or pander to the masses, or do one on a Tuesday and one another night – just stay consistent for crying out loud!!! So annoyed!!

It’s good that Nine shifted it to a later slot but bad that they’re not sending thru updates. They are shockingly bad at communicating. Don’t they want people to find their programs?

The show could’ve been good but is too rushed and scripted. It feels like a 45 min show squashed into half an hour. It would’ve worked better on the ABC where it wouldn’t have been stuffed full of ads. I give Mike and Molly about two weeks there.

I was all prepared to like Joy of Sets and have seen all the episodes on the back of my recordings of 2.5 men, but it isn’t very good at all. I’ll be happy to look at Mike and Molly, again, for at least one week.

I wouldn’t have thought that TAAHM & M&M would be a good match, but what do I know because I’m not a fan of either show. Given the film is being released this month, why don’t Nein schedule repeats of the In-Betweeners from the beginning???

I stand by my comments I made about both Nine and this program I made on the “Gone: William Shatner Roast” post. To summarise – Nine is a poor excuse of a broadcaster and this “Joy of Sets” program is a poor excuse for entertainment – bad writing, bad content and poor camera work. My theory regarding the fact that Nine won’t cancel it straight out is they don’t want a repeat of the whole Ben Elton debacle so they are quietly shuffling it off to a later time slot where it can disappear into obscurity and ratings don’t matter as much.

9’s audience are much happier with reruns of Amreicana and just aren’t that interested in local new shows like Joy Of Sets and sadly those of us that might be interested just don’t like the way 9 run them.

I thought 2 broke girls would be a good fit with 2.5 men. It’s the same type of comedy. Mike and Molly is still rating very well in the US. It could be around for years, 9 really should keep pushing it onto viewers it could pay good dividends. Same with The Middle.

I’m a huge Tony Martin fan and I’m very happy with this outcome. Totally agree it suits the later timeslot, and it hopefully ensures we’ll see all the episodes rather than it sitting on the “shelf” at Nine.
And yes.. I don’t know that Two and a Half Men and Joy of Sets share a common audience, but I could be wrong.

David, do you have to scroll through the TV guides to find updates for Nine now? If so, that is a real commiment to us readers, and also shows a lack of concern that Nine has over it’s viewers.

But I expect next week we will see Gone: Mike and Molly, as it doesn’t rate well, and should be on GEM in a comedy block with Hot in Cleveland as its lead in, then following that could be Drop Dead Diva.